Defining a New NLP Playground

Sha Li, Chi Han, Pengfei Yu, Carl Edwards, Manling Li, Xingyao Wang, Yi Fung, Charles Yu, Joel Tetreault, Eduard Hovy, Heng Ji


Abstract
The recent explosion of performance of large language models (LLMs) has changed the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) more abruptly and seismically than any other shift in the field’s 80 year history. This has resulted in concerns that the field will become homogenized and resource-intensive. This new status quo has put many academic researchers, especially PhD students, at a disadvantage. This paper aims to define a new NLP playground by proposing 20+ PhD-dissertation-worthy research directions, covering theoretical analysis, new and challenging problems, learning paradigms and interdisciplinary applications.
Anthology ID:
2023.findings-emnlp.799
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
Month:
December
Year:
2023
Address:
Singapore
Editors:
Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
11932–11951
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.799
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.799
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Sha Li, Chi Han, Pengfei Yu, Carl Edwards, Manling Li, Xingyao Wang, Yi Fung, Charles Yu, Joel Tetreault, Eduard Hovy, and Heng Ji. 2023. Defining a New NLP Playground. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 11932–11951, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Defining a New NLP Playground (Li et al., Findings 2023)
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